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Making Better Business Decisions by Alan Smith

BY Andres Phillips on December 17, 2019

How well do you know validation? This is the question that Alan Smith, co-founder of Strategyzer, helps to answer in this ProductTank Toronto talk. He shows us: The new way to create a business plan How to use tools and frameworks Watch the video to see Alan’s talk in full. Or read on for an Read more »

Managing Products at Scale by Lindsay Rothman

BY Andres Phillips on December 16, 2019

What’s next after you find product-market fit? In this ProductTank Toronto talk, Lindsay Rothman – Lead Product Manager at FreshBooks at the time, helps us to answer that question. She provides us with a guide on what to do in this situation by: Staying innovative Creating a framework for success Watch the video to see Read more »

Product Teams at Scale by Mladen Rangelov

BY Andres Phillips on December 2, 2019

Scaling requires reinvention and in this ProductTank Toronto talk, senior product manager at Flipp, Mladen Rangelov, tells us how product managers can scale effective teams. He takes us through: How a product manager can help Team operating modes Watch the video to see Mladen’s talk in full. Or read on for an overview of his key Read more »

From Product Manager to Product Executive by Jonathan Nightingale

BY Andres Phillips on November 26, 2019

Unfortunately, a crystal clear career path from product manager to product executive just doesn’t exist. So, if you are working towards becoming a product leader, you’ll quickly realize that your progression roadmap isn’t as well-defined as that of your engineering or sales counterpart. In this ProductTank Toronto talk, Jonathan Nightingale, Co-Founder of Raw Signal Group, Read more »

Are you releasing monsters? By Saeed Khan

BY Moustapha Seck on November 12, 2019

Every product is meant to be released and every release is meant to bring value to the customer. However, as all product managers know, not all releases are equal! Some go well and others are painful – sometimes they’re even monsters, as Saeed Khan of Transformation Labs explains in this Product Tank Toronto talk. Watch Read more »

The Power of Experience Mapping by Gerard Dolan

BY Andres Phillips on October 7, 2019

Gerard Dolan is a Customer/User Experience and Product Design Consultant. In this Toronto ProductTank talk he illustrates the power of experience mapping, answers the questions of what it is, why we do it and the value of doing it by exploring: The types of experience maps. The experience mapping process. Watch the video to see Read more »

The Product Manager's Identity Crisis by Mitchell Gillespie

BY Andres Phillips on September 30, 2019

Product people have a ton of different responsibilities – a number of stakeholders to answer to and a number of different problems to solve. In this ProductTank Toronto talk, Mitchell Gillespie, Director of Product Management at Wave speaks about: The product manager identity crisis Motivating others Playbooks Watch the video to see Mitchell’s talk in full. Read more »

How Netflix Built an Innovative Culture by Gibson Biddle

BY Gibson Biddle on June 3, 2019

A fish swims along, passes another fish and shouts: “How’s the water?” The other fish looks at him and asks: “What the heck is water?” This story illustrates how difficult it is to describe something we navigate every day, that defines what is possible, and in certain cases, enables us to do the impossible. In Read more »

An 8-Step Framework for Product Growth by Sylvia Ng

BY Kyle Lubieniecki on March 21, 2019

As a product professional, your company is looking to you to meaningfully change the bottom line. But are you getting the results you want? Or are you putting in countless hours only to feel like you’re not making enough progress? If you want to seriously develop a product growth competency, how do you ensure success Read more »